Mastering Voice Interfaces : Creating Great Voice Apps for Real Users / by Thymé-Gobbel, Ann, author 642940, Jankowski, Charles, author 642941

“…We live in a golden age of voice technology. Advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP) and other technologies have made it extremely viable for people to be talking to machines and getting reasonable answers. …”

Budget efficient online active learning and its applications by Hao, Shuji

“…Second, to obtain reliable labels in crowdsourcing, most of the algorithms either require a set of golden questions to filter out the noisy workers, or require several labels for each instance. …”
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins : An end-to-end guide to creating operational, secure, resilient, and cost-effective CI/CD processes / by Pathania, Nikhil, author 656264

“…What you will learn Understand CI with the Golden Circle theory Deploy Jenkins on the cloud using Helm charts and Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC) Implement optimal security practices to ensure Jenkins operates securely Extend Jenkins for CI by integrating with SonarQube, GitHub, and Artifactory Scale Jenkins using containers and the cloud for optimal performance Master Jenkins declarative syntax to enrich your pipeline coding vocabulary Enhance security and improve pipeline code within your CI/CD process using best practices Who this book is for This book is for a diverse audience, from university students studying Agile software development to seasoned developers, testers, release engineers, and project managers. …”
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From phosphate to refugees: the offshore refugee boom in the Republic of Nauru by Morris, J

“…By contrast, I argue that not only do Nauru’s refugee operations operate to the peak of industrial best practice, but that Nauru’s offshore refugees actually enhance the moral and financial economies of industry trading and manufacturing operations in other regions. …”

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence by Forster, PM, Smith, C, Walsh, T, Lamb, WF, Lamboll, R, Hall, B, Hauser, M, Ribes, A, Rosen, D, Gillett, NP, Palmer, MD, Rogelj, J, von Schuckmann, K, Trewin, B, Allen, M, Andrew, R, Betts, RA, Borger, A, Boyer, T, Broersma, JA, Buontempo, C, Burgess, S, Cagnazzo, C, Cheng, L, Friedlingstein, P, Gettelman, A, Gütschow, J, Ishii, M, Jenkins, S, Lan, X, Morice, C, Mühle, J, Kadow, C, Kennedy, J, Killick, RE, Krummel, PB, Minx, JC, Myhre, G, Naik, V, Peters, GP, Pirani, A, Pongratz, J, Schleussner, C-F, Seneviratne, SI, Szopa, S, Thorne, P, Kovilakam, MVM, Majamäki, E, Jalkanen, J-P, van Marle, M

Introduction - Oxford Energy Forum – Issue, 98

“…The problem is that lower oil revenues also affect industry, forcing operators to review their investment portfolios to focus on the best regimes and geological prospects.</p> <p>The region’s recent positive developments are taking place against a background where a large number of countries in the region (including Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, French Guyana, and Suriname) have fallen out of favour with oil and gas investors, in some cases for a number of years. …”

Micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) enabled digital pen by Tan, Joel Qi Zhi

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Managing oil palm plantations more sustainably : large-scale experiments within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme by Luke, Sarah H., Advento, Andreas Dwi, Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut, Adhy, Dwi Nugroho, Ashton-Butt, Adham, Barclay, Holly, Dewi, Jassica Prajna, Drewer, Julia, Dumbrell, Alex J., Edi, Eycott, Amy E., Harianja, Martina F., Hinsch, Julie K., Hood, Amelia S. C., Kurniawan, Candra, Kurz, David J., Mann, Darren J., Matthews Nicholass, Kirsty J., Naim, Mohammad, Pashkevich, Michael D., Prescott, Graham W., Ps, Sudharto, Pujianto, Purnomo, Dedi, Purwoko, Rizky Rajabillah, Putra, Syafrisar, Rambe, T. Dzulfikar S., Soeprapto, Spear, Dakota M., Suhardi, Tan, David J. X., Tao, Hsiao-Hang, Tarigan, Ribka Sionita, Wahyuningsih, Resti, Waters, Helen S., Widodo, Rudi Harto, Whendy, Woodham, Christopher R., Caliman, Jean-Pierre, Slade, Eleanor M., Snaddon, Jake L., Foster, William A., Turner, Edgar C.

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Integrated patient monitoring system by Choo, Kok Boon.

“…The Numeric Display was set as a control to simulate the current monitoring system employed in most ICU and it had the best overall performance but it was expected since most nurses in ICU were already very used to such display thus graphical displays were alien to them. …”
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Outcomes of shoulder replacement surgery in routine care by Craig, RS

“…</p> <p>National Joint Registry data for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man were used to predict postoperative patient reported outcomes with modest accuracy. …”

Bergin and Garfield's Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change / by Barkham, Michael, editor 374493, Lutz, Wolfgang, editor 187254, Castonguay, Louis G., (Louis Georges), editor 584857, John Wiley & Sons (Online service) 647106

“…Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a best-selling and renowned reference in psychotherapy research and practice. …”
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Contemporary Somali piracy : evaluating the effectiveness of counter-piracy measures by Tan, Cherlyn Shuyi.

“…The industry efforts refer mainly to the Best Management Practices (BMP) and the usage of private armed guards. …”
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Surtitling for Mandarin theatre : a user-centred approach to translating Singlish by Lin, Hui

“…However, it poses a challenge to surtitle translators in deciding to what strategies to employ to best conduct this transfer of language and culture. …”
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Properties and flexural performance of iron ore tailings concrete by Oritola, Sikiru Folahan

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Effect of confining pressure on hysteresis of soil-water characteristic curves by Eng, Ngee Kiang

“…It has two components, a SWCC flexible-wall cell and a wooden slider device for drying and wetting SWCCs to be performed with a net confining pressure applied. …”
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A protocol for mobilising novel finance models for collaborative health promotion and disease prevention initiatives: taking a smart capacitating investment approach in the Invest4... by Lane, J, Edwards, RT, Babarczy, B, Whiteley, H, Oruganti, V, Rutten-van Mölken, M, Costongs, C, Jani, AR, Wordsworth, S, Maassen, A, Tsiachristas, A, Davies, J, Stavenow, B, van Vliet, J, Wright, S, Papartyte, L, Camaradou, JC, Koleva-Kolarova, R

“…The term “smart capacitating investment” (SCI) has previously been used to understand how to best boost social infrastructure investment in education, health, transport and housing across the EU. …”

Creep and shrinkage performance of kenaf bio fibrous concrete composite by Ogunbode, Ezekiel Babatunde

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Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…Thermally-reversible Diels-Alder (DA) mechanism for self-healing are promising but have only been demonstrated healing at high temperatures (~120 °C). …”
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